{"id":5659,"date":"2022-05-12T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2022-05-12T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:54:05","slug":"liberty-university-could-face-serious-federal-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5659","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University could face serious Federal fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University could face serious fines if the Department of Education finds the school violated federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can lead to penalties ranging from fines to the elimination of eligibility to participate in the federal student aid program, something that has never happened, but that&#8217;s the most severe penalty,&#8221; S. Daniel Carter, the president of Safety Advisors for Educational Purposes, said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Federal officials are looking into Liberty University, school officials acknowledged recently, in the wake of complaints about how the school handles reports of sexual assault. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jPj9UBwCcm\">https:\/\/t.co\/jPj9UBwCcm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1521808626696044544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liberty University students told us that federal agents have been at the school\u2019s campus this week. Department of Education officials have also reached out to student advocates to arrange meetings.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ulivnteg6Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ulivnteg6Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ProPublica (@propublica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/propublica\/status\/1523375788766113794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urKQl7PO1Do\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University could face serious fines if the Department of Education finds the school violated federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can lead to penalt&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5659\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University could face serious Federal fines<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-could-face-serious-federal-fines","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}